Quarterly: 1st and 4th, azure, a cross patonce or (for Ward); 2nd and 3rd, gules, three cinquefoils ermine, on a chief of the second a man's heart of the first (for Hamilton)[1]
Creation date
11 January 1781
Created by
King George III
Peerage
Peerage of Ireland
First holder
Bernard Ward, 1st Baron Bangor
Present holder
William Ward, 8th Viscount
Heir presumptive
Hon. Edward Nicholas Ward
Remainder to
the 1st Viscount's heirs male of the body lawfully begotten.
Subsidiary titles
Baron Bangor
Seat(s)
Castle Ward
Motto
Sub cruce salus ("Salvation under the cross")
Viscount Bangor, of Castle Ward, in County Down, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland.[2]
^Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Burke's Peerage. 1914. pp. 173–176. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
^"No. 12146". The London Gazette. 19 December 1780. p. 2.
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Ward is the daughter of Edward Ward, 7th ViscountBangor, and his fourth wife, Marjorie Alice Banks, Lady Bangor; as such, she is entitled to use the courtesy...
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Baron Bangor in May 1770. In January 1781, Lord Bangor was further advanced in the Peerage of Ireland when he was created The 1st ViscountBangor. The...
Executive of Northern Ireland. 1921–1929 The 12th Viscount Massereene 1929–1930 The 6th ViscountBangor 1930–1941 Senator John Andrew Long 1941–1948 Sir...
of Bantry 1 July 1854 Hayes St Leger, 3rd Viscount Doneraile 16 July 1868 Edward Ward, 4th ViscountBangor 9 January 1855 Henry Prittie, 2nd Baron Dunalley...
19th century. The ranks of the Irish peerage are duke, marquess, earl, viscount and baron. As of 2016, there were 135 titles in the Peerage of Ireland...
the Senate. These were the third and fourth Dukes of Abercorn, ViscountBangor, Viscount Charlemont, the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Lord Glentoran,...
(1630–?), Irish MP for Downpatrick Nicholas Ward, 2nd ViscountBangor (1750–1827), Irish MP for Bangor Nicholas Ward (boxer) (1811–1850), English bare-knuckle...
Petty Ward Henry Ward Edward Ward, 3rd ViscountBangor 1836 Francis Grosvenor Hood Samuel Hood-Tibbits, 3rd Viscount Hood 1849 George Brodrick William John...
Ward, 9th Baron Dudley (1704–1731), English peer Edward Ward, 4th ViscountBangor (1827–1881), Irish representative peer Sir Edward Ward, 1st Baronet...
Bangor University (Welsh: Prifysgol Bangor) is a public university in Bangor, Wales. It received its Royal Charter in 1885 and was one of the founding...
served as High Sheriff of Down for 1842 and was a brother of the 3rd ViscountBangor. It was designed by the Scottish architect, William Burn, in the Jacobethan...
largely from the protests of Labour politician Tony Benn, then the 2nd Viscount Stansgate. Under British law at the time, peers of England, peers of Great...
former Horse Barracks was bought in 1774 for £150 by Bernard Ward, 1st ViscountBangor for use as the Infirmary. It was used until the new Infirmary (later...
now published more than a dozen major works. Her husband became 8th ViscountBangor in 1993. She is fluent in four languages[which?][citation needed] and...
1973–1974, The Lord Shepherd 1974–1976, The Lord Belstead 1988–1990 and The Viscount Cranborne 1994–1997) to allow their continued membership after the passage...
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